My name is Matthew and I am creating a world…the likes of which you've never seen. Both personally and professionally, I provide an open space for the creative and unique to learn, teach, grow and broaden their horizons. A place without judgement or fear, where you can explore your desires and curiosities and be welcomed for them. A place you can find like-minded, beautiful creatures. I collect the eclectic.

The line between my personal life and my professional one is often blurry. I run a weekly event in Wilmington. A goth/industrial dance party with a touch of kink. A little something for everyone, no matter your previous experience. It's a place where all of my worlds collide in harmony. A group effort , if you will. I specialize in harnessing an individual's unique talents. I have brought many of those talents together to create a truly intoxicating experience. I would love to show you. https://www.facebook.com/asylum13

I often open my personal space to expand on this experience in a more intimate setting. My Bonfires are my sanctum, I like fire and I like to gather around it with people from many different walks of life. I want people who can teach me something about their world and have the courage to learn form mine. I like to provide an escape from the mundane, mediocrity that day to day life can often bring. A place where people can be themselves, fully.

I can be intense. I am genuinely interested in getting to know you under the surface. I'm really good at seeing people. If you let me, I can help you realize potential in yourself that you've probably never considered. I can find a place for you in my world. All I ask is that you enter with an open mind and an open heart. I guarantee you've never met anyone like me. I know people say it all the time, but I am truly one of a kind. I will surprise you at every turn. It's fun to be kept on your toes, right?

Want to experience something new?

So do I :)

My story told in quotes:

"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."~Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.-Yann Martel

A force of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

Without adversity there is no evolution. -Matthew Romans

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice. - Dunninger

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are Gods”-Jesus Christ, John 10-34

"Fact and fable are equal in the eyes of God, for mere reality is shaped at Heaven's whim, but the Truth is the expression of an eternal Being, above and beyond even the most powerful Creator."-an excerpt from the Kabbalah of Azazel

"To shake off the maddening and wearying limitationsof time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside- to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one's life, soul, and sanity!"-H. P. Lovecraft

“Things need not to have happened to be true, Tales and dreams are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes”-Morpheus

“Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality.”-Goethe

"The truth told with evil intent can be more devastating than all the lies one could invent."-Matthew Romans

"Unless the eye catch fire the God will not be seen, unless the tongue catch fire the God will not be named, unless the heart catch fire the God will not be felt, and finally unless the mind catch fire the God will not be known"-William Blake

"The difference between Gods and Devils is Gods die gladly, Devils must be slain."-Goethe

SOLVE ET COAGULA “Nature strives towards Perfection.”

"Nothing complete or completing; all existence a mighty ocean, ever resurging, reindulging, and divulging little—wherein we are thrown to grasp the straw of Ego as our raft to Eternity."-Robert Anton Wilson

God's busy. May I help you?-The Devil

"If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization."-Robert G. Ingersoll

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind" (William James)

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing" (Abraham Lincoln)